1. Chapter 7 Section 4

2.  Telescope: a device built to observe distant objects by making them appear closer  Lenses are used to focus light coming in through a tube

3. Moon’s Surface  Maria  Craters  Highlands

4. Maria  Dark flat areas on the moon  Hardened rock formed from huge lava flows that occurred between 3-4 billion years ago

6. Craters  Large round pits on the moon  Caused by the impacts of meteoroids  Meteoroids: chunks of rock or dust from space

7. Highlands  mountains or the rims of craters on the moon

8. LUNAR HIGHLANDS CRATERS MARIA

9. Characteristics of the Moon  Dry and airless  Roughly ¼ the size of Earth  Large Variations in Temperature (180 ° C to -130°C)  The moon has no liquid water

10. SCIENTISTS THEORIZE THAT A PLANET –SIZED OBJECT COLLIDED WITH EARTH TO FORM THE MOON

11. NAME THAT PHASE? WAXING CRESANT

12. NAME THAT PHASE? WANING GIBBOUS

13. NAME THAT PHASE? FULL MOON

14. NAME THAT PHASE? NEW MOON

15. NAME THAT PHASE? FIRST QUARTER MOON